The 2D side-scrolling action role-playing game It Lurks Below finally released after a year in Early Access, and it is available now on Steam. This retro-style dungeon crawler is developed by David Brevik, co-founder of and once president of Blizzard North, who worked on the first two Diablo games, and you can see the influences.

Blizzard Entertainment co-founder Mike Morhaime will be presented with the 2019 Honor Award at the Gamelab Barcelona event in Spain. According to a press release, the award is being given for “his successful career in gaming and his key role in the creation of some of the most groundbreaking and influential interactive universes of all-time.”

The response from fans when Diablo: Immortal was revealed at BlizzCon 2018 was chilly, to say the least. The company’s response to widespread backlash from the community didn’t help things much either. But Blizzard Entertainment president J. Allen Brack said that the company learned a lot from the incident.

Ahead of Season 17, the Diablo 3 patch 2.6.5 has now gone live in the US. Read on for all the notes in case you’ve not been following the PTR.

This update brings the new Torment difficulties, quality of life improvements including search in the stash, Death’s Breath dropping in Hpordric Caches and more, a new potion, and more. Here’s everything in detail along with the developer notes.

Season 17 will kick off on 17 May so now’s the time to get used to the changes before that starts.

Blizzard announced that Diablo 3 Season 17: The Season of Nightmares will officially begin on May 17 around the same time patch 2.6.5 goes into effect. The new season will bring new legendary items, additional Torment levels, and a variety of quality of life changes to the game.

Now I know many of you would rather forget Blizzcon 2018, it was a disaster for the Diablo franchise. Hopefully by now, you will all have purchased a phone. Blizzard has today revealed the release dates for the BlizzCon 2019 tickets.

Layoff rumours have been growing over the past week and today Activision Blizzard pulled the trigger and around 8% of the workforce at Activision, Blizzard, and King are being let go. This amounts to around 800 people. It’s not great news for Blizzard staff, especially those not working directly in game development.